Noun

• S: (n) cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation (fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation, impregnation (creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant)
• S: (n) pollination, pollenation (transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant)
• S: (n) cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation (fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from different individual of the same species)
• S: (n) self-fertilization, self-fertilisation (fertilization by the union of male and female gametes from the same individual)
• S: (n) superfecundation (fertilization of two or more ova released during the same menstrual cycle by sperm from separate acts of coitus (especially by different males))
• S: (n) superfetation (fertilization of a second ovum after a pregnancy has begun; results in two fetuses of different ages in the uterus at the same time) "superfetation is normal in some animal species"
• antonym
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) cross-fertilization, cross-fertilisation (interchange between different cultures or different ways of thinking that is mutually productive and beneficial) "the cross-fertilization of science and the creative arts"